From: mark.rutland@arm.com (Mark Rutland)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: dts: explicitly mark skeleton.dtsi as deprecated
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 13:46:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160901124611.GA5049@leverpostej> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1472730037-4972-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com>
On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 12:40:37PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> As noted in commit 3ebee5a2e141496b ("arm64: dts: kill skeleton.dtsi"),
> there are a number of problems with skeleton.dtsi, and it would be
> prefereable to remove it entirely. As there are a large number of
> existing users, fixing these up will take a while.
>
> This patch adds a note to arm's skeleton.dtsi noting that this is the
> case, to make this more obvious and hopefully minimize new uptake of
> skeleton.dtsi in the mean time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@arm.com>
This should have been linaro.org. not sure how I managed that.
Mark.
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
> ---
> arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi
> index b41d241..28b81d6 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi
> @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
> /*
> + * This file is deprecated, and will be removed once existing users have been
> + * updated. New dts{,i} files should *not* include skeleton.dtsi, and should
> + * instead explicitly provide the below nodes only as required.
> + *
> * Skeleton device tree; the bare minimum needed to boot; just include and
> * add a compatible value. The bootloader will typically populate the memory
> * node.
> --
> 1.9.1
>
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2016-09-01 11:40 [PATCH] ARM: dts: explicitly mark skeleton.dtsi as deprecated Mark Rutland
2016-09-01 12:46 ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2016-09-01 13:10 ` Rob Herring
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